Starting Over in Sunset Park

h1 March 2nd, 2021 by jules



 

I’ve a review over at BookPage of the bright and beautiful Starting Over in Sunset Park (Tilbury House, February 2021), written by José Pelaez and Lynn McGee and illustrated by Bianca Diaz.

The review is here, and below are some spreads.

Enjoy!



 


“When we arrived, I could see that their lives in this new place were beautiful.
Could my life here be beautiful as well? I didn’t know.
I only knew that I was homesick and a little afraid.”

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“The day we went to Central Park, it began to snow. I had never seen snow before. Mama had never seen it either. It felt so cold and soft.”
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“Starting over in Sunset Park was hard,
but in the end it was good.”

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STARTING OVER IN SUNSET PARK. Text © 2021 by José Pelaez and Lynn McGee. Illustrations © 2021 by Bianca Diaz and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Tilbury House Publishers, Thomaston, ME.





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